[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 13.09 [git: e9a3e4c08e01f40923d67d6d581f8fe67fb1b44a]; error while typing in an R buffer

[Vitalie Spinu]

git show  e9a3e4c08
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Is this some 2-3 months old ESS merged with your local changes?

Please make sure that it is the most recent version of our master branch
that you are reporting from.

   Vitalie

 >>> Sam Steingold on Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:50:42 -0400 wrote:

 >> * Sam Steingold <fqf at tah.bet> [2013-09-17 16:44:32 -0400]:
 >> 
 >> while typing in a comment line in an R buffer, I get this error:
 >> ("tim" is the part of the word "time" which I managed to finish before
 >> being hit with the error)
 >> 
 >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep tim)
 >> replace-regexp-in-string("\\\\" "\\\\" tim nil t)
 >> ess-quote-special-chars(tim)
 >> ess-function-arguments(tim #<process R>)
 >> ess-R-eldoc-function()

 > the cause is that `symbol-at-point' returns a symbol, not a string, and
 > that symbol is passed to ess-quote-special-chars which expects a
 > string.

 > The solution is to use (thing-at-point 'symbol) instead of
 > (symbol-at-point).

 > Do you want a patch (or git pull request)?